Live auction - bgr_371166 - AIOLIS - CYME Tétradrachme stéphanophore
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 2 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 120 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:13:17 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme stéphanophore
Date: c. 160 AC.
Mint name / Town : Éolide, Cymé
Metal : silver
Diameter : 31,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,87 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de Kymé magnifique de haut relief et de style fin. Revers finement détaillé. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés et bleutés irisés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête de la nymphe Kymé diadémée à droite, les cheveux relevés et coiffés en petit chignon.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cheval au pas à droite, levant l'antérieur gauche au-dessus d'une coupe à une anse ; le tout dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : KUMAIWN// KALLIAS.
Reverse translation : (de Cymé/ Kallias).
Commentary
Magistrat Kallias. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire de la collection Delepierre n° 2556.
Historical background
AIOLIS - CYME
(2nd century BC)
Cymé, today Sandakli, one of the most important cities of the Aeolian coast, was located south of Myrhina. It had a port and was founded by Locrians. She herself is at the origin of the foundation of Side in Pamphylia and of Cumae in Campania. It is the homeland of Hesiod. Stephanophoric coinage was the subject of a study by JM Oakley, Wreathed Tetradrachms of Kymé published by the ANS. in MN.27, (1982) which lists several hundred specimens, the majority of which come from the great find of Cilicia discovered in 1973 CH. I and which contained more than five thousand tetradrachms.
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